1. Governing sustainable urban renewal : networks and partners in governance -- 2. Sustainable urban renewal, partnerships and networks -- 3. Understanding and evaluating partnership and network governance models in sustainable urban renewal -- 4. Institutional context : informing partnerships,...

This paper reviews and makes comparative assessment of models of pensions systems. Pension plans and systems, and the contemporary trends in their development are briefly introduced. Models of pension systems by three leading international organizations are reviewed, compared and commentated....

This book addresses the tendency to mischaracterise liberalism as a “neoliberal” reform project, arguing that liberal political philosophy is concerned only to sustain the conditions that make individual freedom possible. This is illustrated with reference to the design of pensions....

Purpose Europeanization involves institutional development as well as the adaptation of Member States policy and regulation towards EU directed expectations and transformations. Design/methodology/approach Europeanization provides a means of mapping, analysing changes and enables a starting...

Purpose Is public entrepreneurship an oxymoron? Why and how is enterprise/entrepreneurship important for public service delivery? The growing role of enterprise within the public sector has been the subject of much recent debate and policy focus, surrounding issues such as public value, meeting...

Public service ethos (PSE) is traditionally associated with public administration, bureaucracy and frontline response. Thinkers such as Aristotle and Weber embedded ideas of public virtue and vocation, yet new managerialism, as well as changes to public services management challenge traditional...